Here's a weird one. Wondering if anyone else has been having u joint problems with spicer or heard anything?
I pretty much run spicer non greasable u joints exclusively in my Jeep. Greaseable u joints just don't work for me. With cap seals that are made to let excess grease OUT, they let water in and that leads to premature failure. Or one passage clogs up and that cap goes dry and the bearings fail.
Back in 2016, I put Spicer 5-760X u joints in the front of the Cherokee. According to my records they have 20000 miles on them (possibly more since for most of that, the speedometer/odometer were reading 20% slow). They have been through MANY rock crawling trips, water crossings and even submerged for an hour or two while the Jeep had to get abandon in a water or mud puddle.
When I was doing some work on the Jeep earlier this year, I decided to buy another set of Spicer 5-760 joints. My plan was to just replace them. The problem is , the ones from 2016 were perfect. I ended up putting the new joints in another set of shafts with (also good) cheap joints that were spares.
The caps immediately broke on both new spicers. Cost me a set of axle shafts! Very disappointed. They didn't give me any trouble installing. I went back on Amazon to see reviews and found 2 or 3 reviews, right around the same time where people had the caps shatter on them . One of which was during installation?
Anyone else having this issue? I'm tempted to reuse the caps from my original. I like the beefy bodies on these joints and have never had a problem with them before!
I bought two more hoping these are from a different batch.
I pretty much run spicer non greasable u joints exclusively in my Jeep. Greaseable u joints just don't work for me. With cap seals that are made to let excess grease OUT, they let water in and that leads to premature failure. Or one passage clogs up and that cap goes dry and the bearings fail.
Back in 2016, I put Spicer 5-760X u joints in the front of the Cherokee. According to my records they have 20000 miles on them (possibly more since for most of that, the speedometer/odometer were reading 20% slow). They have been through MANY rock crawling trips, water crossings and even submerged for an hour or two while the Jeep had to get abandon in a water or mud puddle.
When I was doing some work on the Jeep earlier this year, I decided to buy another set of Spicer 5-760 joints. My plan was to just replace them. The problem is , the ones from 2016 were perfect. I ended up putting the new joints in another set of shafts with (also good) cheap joints that were spares.
The caps immediately broke on both new spicers. Cost me a set of axle shafts! Very disappointed. They didn't give me any trouble installing. I went back on Amazon to see reviews and found 2 or 3 reviews, right around the same time where people had the caps shatter on them . One of which was during installation?
Anyone else having this issue? I'm tempted to reuse the caps from my original. I like the beefy bodies on these joints and have never had a problem with them before!
I bought two more hoping these are from a different batch.
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